Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Villers-lès-Nancy, France

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Number of sights 14 sights
Distance 7.1 km
Ascend 56 m
Descend 119 m

Explore Villers-lès-Nancy in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Sight 1: Château Madame de Graffigny

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The Château Madame de Graffigny, also known as Madame de Graffigny's castle, is an eighteenth-century residence, refurbished in the nineteenth century, of which the writer Françoise de Graffigny was the occupant and to whom she gave her name. This house is located in Villers-lès-Nancy, a suburb of Nancy. Other famous occupants lived in the castle: Benjamin Constant and Mathieu de Dombasle.

Wikipedia: Château de Madame de Graffigny (FR)

1683 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 2: Église Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus

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Église Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus François BERNARDIN / CC BY 3.0

The Church of Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus is a French church in the Parc du Placieux in Villers-lès-Nancy. It is dedicated to Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus. Its construction lasted from 1930 to 1934.

Wikipedia: Église Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'enfant-Jésus de Villers-lès-Nancy (FR)

1049 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 3: Musée de l'École de Nancy

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The Musée de l'École de Nancy is a museum devoted to the École de Nancy, an Art Nouveau movement founded in 1901 by Émile Gallé, Victor Prouvé, Louis Majorelle, Antonin Daum and Eugène Vallin in the city of Nancy in Lorraine, north-eastern France. They were joined by other artists, notably Jacques Grüber.

Wikipedia: Musée de l'École de Nancy (EN), Website

32 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Maison Le Jeune

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The Maison Le Jeune is a building located in the city of Nancy, in Meurthe-et-Moselle in the Lorraine region.

Wikipedia: Maison Le Jeune (FR), Related Wikipedia

480 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: Parc Sainte-Marie

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Parc Sainte-Marie is a public garden in Nancy, France, France.

Wikipedia: Parc Sainte-Marie (FR)

719 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 6: Église Saint-Joseph

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Église Saint-JosephAlexandre Prevot from Nancy, France / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Saint-Joseph de Nancy church is a neo-Roman style church built in the 19th century and located in Nancy, in the rue de Mon-Désert.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Joseph de Nancy (FR)

790 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Villa Lang

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Villa Lang

Villa Lang is a house built by the architect Lucien Weissenburger in Nancy, at No. 1 Boulevard Georges-Clemenceau in the Park de Saurupt. This building is one of the representations of the Art Nouveau current of the Nancy school.

Wikipedia: Villa Lang (FR), Related Wikipedia

62 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Villa Marguerite

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The Villa Marguerite is a building located in the city of Nancy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region of France.

Wikipedia: Villa Marguerite (Nancy) (FR)

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Les Glycines

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Les Glycines

Les Glycines is a school style villa in Nancy located at 5, rue des Brice, in the Parc de Saurupt in Nancy, France.

Wikipedia: Les Glycines (FR)

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Villa Fruhinsholz

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The Villa Fruhinsholz is a building located at 77 avenue du Général-Leclerc, in the city of Nancy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Lorraine region.

Wikipedia: Villa Fruhinsholz (FR)

634 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 11: Maison Geschwindenhamer

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The former Geschwindenhamer or Geschwindammer house is a building located at 6 ter quai de la Bataille - not far from the Parc de Saurupt - in Nancy, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine region.

Wikipedia: Maison Geschwindenhamer (FR)

602 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 12: Église Saint-Pierre

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Église Saint-PierrePatrick from Compiègne, France / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Church of Saint-Pierre is a neo-Gothic style church built in Nancy in the 19th century.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Pierre de Nancy (FR)

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Maison Bergeret

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Maison BergeretLucien Weissenburger for the building alainalele for the picture / CC BY 2.0

The Hôtel Bergeret is a private mansion designed in the style of the School of Nancy by the architect Lucien Weissenburger.

Wikipedia: Immeuble Bergeret (FR)

660 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 14: Porte Saint-Nicolas

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Many towns and villages have a Porte Saint-Nicolas. It usually refers to St. Nicholas of Myra, bishop of Asia Minor, in the fourth century, very popular in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. This odonym suggests that a chapel or church of St. Nicholas is located in the street.

Wikipedia: Porte Saint-Nicolas (FR)

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